Holger BeckMay 172 minPark School "Santa Lucía" Test Run.Last Sunday during the fair of the annual festivities in Nanegal we had a test run of our park school activity. The park school is an...
Holger BeckApr 151 minVanilla Workshop @ Santa LuciaEarlier this month several members of the Santa Lucía community and neighbors got an introduction into the cultivation of the Vanilla...
Holger BeckJan 192 minWildlife Monitoring 2021All the monitoring activities of 2021 were finalized in December and we are currently in the process of analyzing the data. Since 2008...
Holger BeckDec 22, 20212 minVisit of University of Sussex - a short summaryFrom 4th to 20th of December we hosted two groups of students from the University of Sussex in our reserve. It was a blast. Everything...
Holger BeckNov 18, 20211 minBrand new solar panels up and running!It's time for good news from Santa Lucía again! Yesterday, we installed a new set of solar panels! The goals is to have some continuous...
Holger BeckOct 22, 20211 minHectare plot setup finished.Last week Ana Mariscal's team finished the establishing the last hectare plot in Santa Lucía. That means that we have three hectare plots...
Holger BeckSep 28, 20211 minVisit of School for International Training group.It finally happened! After 18 months we received our first student group last week. Elevent students and three teachers of the School for...
Holger BeckAug 9, 20211 minOcellated Tapaculo observed in Santa Lucía!Noé has completed the first round of bird monitoring for 2021 and we had to wait for quite some time to find a new species. But in late...
Holger BeckAug 1, 20212 minTraining for local Parabiologist finally held.With a few months of COVID- and datetime-related delay, the hectare plot training for local parabiologists was finally held yesterday....
Holger BeckJul 16, 20211 minHectare Plot ONE Three days ago a group of scientists and parabiologists led by Ana Mariscal (Cambugán Foundation) started working on the first of our new...
Holger BeckJun 24, 20211 minFour years of Rain MeasurementWe hope to replace the manual measurement of rainfall by a weather station at the lodge at least within the next few months. Down in La...
Holger BeckJun 18, 20211 minThe Hectare Plot Adventure begins ...Earlier this week we could finally start setting up three new hectare plots in Santa Lucía. Two collaborators - Ana Marisca and Edison...
Santa LucíaJun 10, 20211 minSanta Lucía / University of Sussex WorkshopYesterday - 9th of June - the long-awaited workshop of Santa Lucía and the University of Sussex finally took place. Online of course. And...
Santa LucíaMay 30, 20211 minSanta Lucia / University of Sussex Workshop on 9th of JuneSanta Lucía and the University of Sussex will be running a work - online - on 9th of June at 11am Ecuadorian Time. We've invited all our...
Holger BeckMay 17, 20211 minFollowing the Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)A few weeks ago when Holger, Noé and Ana walked through the Santa Lucía forest in order to pick the spots for the new hectare plots we...
Holger BeckApr 28, 20211 minObservatory Project Started!Although the progress is still somewhat slow we could finally take the first steps in our Observatory Project. Unfortunately due to...
Santa LucíaMar 30, 20212 minProgress on Observatory ProjectSo, we wanted to kick off the observatory project in February with some action already, but as it is probably in most cases with such...
Holger BeckMar 24, 20211 minRain Data Santa Lucía 2017 - 2021Here you can download the monthly rainfall data for the Santa Lucía Ecolodge as a .csv file and create your own analysis' with it. The...
Santa LucíaMar 2, 20211 minShort report on Monitoring 2020We've created a short report on all the different monitoring activities in 2020. It was meant to be used internally only, but there's...
Santa LucíaJan 15, 20211 minBird Monitoring 2020The year 2020 was not a great year in terms of tourism, but research and especially bird monitoring have been major successes. In fact -...